HONE vs. NIC, CASH, HUT, SII, CUBI, PWP, CLBK, MBIN, WULF, and CMPO
Should you be buying HarborOne Bancorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HarborOne Bancorp include Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Pathward Financial (CASH), Hut 8 (HUT), Sprott (SII), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), TeraWulf (WULF), and CompoSecure (CMPO). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
HarborOne Bancorp vs. Its Competitors
Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) and HarborOne Bancorp (NASDAQ:HONE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HarborOne Bancorp has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nicolet Bankshares presently has a consensus target price of $119.25, indicating a potential downside of 9.34%. HarborOne Bancorp has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.82%. Given HarborOne Bancorp's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe HarborOne Bancorp is more favorable than Nicolet Bankshares.
Nicolet Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than HarborOne Bancorp. Nicolet Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HarborOne Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Nicolet Bankshares had 4 more articles in the media than HarborOne Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares and 0 mentions for HarborOne Bancorp. HarborOne Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Nicolet Bankshares' score of 0.92 indicating that HarborOne Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 24.31% compared to HarborOne Bancorp's net margin of 8.13%. Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity of 11.08% beat HarborOne Bancorp's return on equity.
Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. HarborOne Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Nicolet Bankshares pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HarborOne Bancorp pays out 57.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Nicolet Bankshares has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and HarborOne Bancorp has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. HarborOne Bancorp is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.0% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of HarborOne Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Nicolet Bankshares beats HarborOne Bancorp on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:HONE) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
